The rare jewel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…The rare jevvel of Christian contentment. By Jeremiah Burroughs, preacher of the Gospel to…

Secondly; It is the [quiet] of the heart; All is sedate and still there, and to understand this the better; This quiet gracious frame of spirit, it is not opposed.

1 To a due sense of affliction. God doth give leave to his people to be sensible of what they su••er: Christ doth not say, Do not count that a cross which is a cross, but take up your cross daily. As it is in the body natural, if the body takes physic, and is not able to bear it but presently vomits it up, or if it be not at all sensible, if it stir not the body; either of these ways the physic doth no good, but argues the body much distempered and will hardly be cured. So it is with the spirits of men under afflictions; if either they cannot bear Gods potions but cast them up again, or are not sensible of them, and their souls are no more stirred by them then the body is by a draught of small beer, it is a sad symptom that their souls are in a dangerous and almost incurable condition. So that this inward quietness is not in opposition to the sense of affliction; for indeed there were no true contentment if you were not apprehensive and sensible of your afflictions when God is angry. It is not opposed.

1 To a due sense of affiiction. God doth give leave to his people to be sensible of what they su••er: Christ doth not say, Do not count that a crosse which is a crosse, but take up your crosse daily. As it is in the body natural, if the body takes physick, and is not able to bear it but presently vomits it up, or if it be not at all sensible, if it stir not the body; either of these waies the physick doth no good, but argues the body much distempered and will hardly be cured. So it is with the spirits of men under afflictions; if either they cannot bear Gods potions but cast them up again, or are not sensible of them, and their souls are no more stirr'd by them then the body is by a draught of smal beer, it is a sad symptome that their souls are in a dangerous and almost incurable condition. So that this inward quietnesse is not in opposition to the sense of affliction; for indeed there were no true contentment if you were not apprehensive and sensible of your af•lictions when God is angry. It is not opposed.